Spanish Speakers in the USA / / Janet M. Fuller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Fuller, Janet M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: MM Textbooks
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

Spanish Speakers in the USA explores the relationship between language and culture both as specific to Latin@s and as a generalizable example of linguistic and cultural diversity. The concept of identity is explored, with special attention to culturally embedded ideas about 'race' and ethnicity, and how language contributes to identity construction. Also addressed are attitudes and beliefs about the Spanish language, and the people who speak it, as they are revealed in online communication, public discourse, films and television. Linguistic consequences of language contact are discussed, showing how so-called 'Spanglish' is both socially significant and linguistically mundane. The final chapter illuminates how the education of Spanish speakers in the USA school system is linked to issues surrounding Latin@ identities and ideologies about Spanish.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Ideologies and Identities -- 1: Language Ideologies and Language Policies -- 2: Language and Identity -- 3: ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Spanish Speakers in the US -- 4: Media Representations of Spanish and Spanish Speakers in US English Language TV and Film: Production and Reproduction of Ideologies -- Part 2: Language Practices -- 5: Spanish Language Maintenance and Shift in the US -- 6: Linguistic Consequences of Spanish-English Bilingualism in the US: 107 ‘Spanglish’ and Chican@ English -- 7: Latin@ Education in the US -- References -- Glossary -- Index